Happy Birthday Leanne! We had a very interesting day today. I received an email at about 8:00 saying, "Darren!!!! I can't get out of the House!!!!" and there was a photo of a large, hairy, Huntsman Spider sitting outside the window staring in. They are harmless and are actually quite helpful because they eat insects and other spiders. Either way, it had to go. So I borrowed Rachelle's Ute and came home, swept him to the ground, and squished him with my foot. The...

We had a great Sunday altogether. After waking up to a cool and comfortable house we had biscuits hot from the oven and had a great breakfast together. Leanne convinced Layla and Darren to try Vegemite for the first time, on a biscuit. So we did...ugh...I don't know why anyone would eat that on purpose, let alone pay for it in a store! After that we went out to plant our garden. It was nice and cool and the sun was starting to come up, so it made for a great day...

Today we went in to Adelaide in the afternoon. It was very rainy; they haven't had this much rain in one day in 45 years! We were worried the Fringe Parade would be cancelled but luckily the skies cleared and it was a beautiful night sitting along King William Street to watch the parade in Downtown Adelaide. There were many 'interesting' floats and people around all night and the pre-parade show was probably the biggest hit with Layla as she got to run through t...

Today was the annual Clare High School Swimming Carnival. They decided to make the event start at 4:00 pm and run until 9:00 pm as the forecasted high was 42 degrees that day. Layla had swimming lessons at 12:00 and when we were at the pool it was already 40! It was a very hot day and it was my first day as a roadie for the high school, setting up the PA system. The kids all showed up dressed in their House colors and sporting some very non-uniform attire! I belo...

On Friday night we drove to Adelaide right after school and went to Ikea. After Ikea we went to Chance Seely's house. He is a teacher that is on exchange. He happens to be from Olds...who would've guessed! We stayed the night at Chance's and awoke early to get to the wildlife park as it was going to be 41 degrees today!! We got to the park and immediately saw a koala and many colorful birds. We bought some animal snacks to feed to the animals and Darren was acos...